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Found on flickr

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I know I'm a little off with my type loving, but i will do better.I would love some comments on my recent Fontstruct creationsBlocks:Quad:Quad Light:Old School:

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Designed by Harmann Zapf in the mid 1950's in Germany. Optima is classified as a "Sans-Serif" but it has a slight smelling near thr terminals of easch character giving it a slight serif feel. The italic form is more an oblique then an italic. The capital letters seem based on traditional Roman models, just like many serif faces.McCain’s Optimum LookCan a typeface truly represent a presidential

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online font creation tool. fun to play with.seems online design creation is the new thing. Photoshop express

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Archer, The colorful Slab SerifSweet but not saccharine, earnest but not grave, Archer is designed to hit just the right notes of forthrightness, credibility, and charm.Just kinda looking around typography.com and saw their new face archer. It was designed for Marth Stewart Living. Since for a magazine, they had many design problems to face, like body copy, headlines, small caps, lists, charts,

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I haven't had much time to update lately with work and freelancing.i promise more updates are coming soon.~Adam

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The mets family features a serif and a sans serif, officially called ff meta sans and ff meta serif. The sans was designed by Spiekerman in the 90's. Meta is a very popular and well known sans serif face, small intricate make it a very interesting face.After much love for the sans, he attempted the serif.3 years and help from Christian Schwartz and Kris Sowersby he accomplished the goal of a

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(ok i know your saying "stencil?"... just read it)Stencil was designed in 1937 by Gerry Powell. He succeeded in imitating the spray painted on to a big wooden crate type. There are capital only.StencilSerif: flat rounded serif.usage: military army spray painty stuff?Characteristics: Rounded edges, thick main strokes, and PYLONS...Pylon: The area of a stencil font which (a) adds structural

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René Albert Chalet is the typographic (and fashion) genius behind hit self titled typeface. House Industries (foundry who released chalet) considers him "he most underappreciated yet arguably greatest typeface designers in history."Although he never fully received the recognition he deserved, René Chalet was better known in fashion circles for his contributions to developing the prêt-à-porter

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Typographical character used to refer to a particular section of a document. it is often used along with a pilcrow ¶ . §§ reads as "sections"The sign came from a double stroked S. Scribes often double stroked a letter in place of the more modern bold weighted characters.usages:If the asterisk and daggers have been used, the § can be used in footnotes.Type specimen in animals.mac osx alt+6win alt

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Frere-jones designed Interstane from 1993-4. He used the familiarity of the highway signs to create a very legible sans serif. This family includes 40 fonts in 3 widths and 7 weights.InterstateSerif: sansClassifications: neo-grotesque.Characteristics: terminals of the ascenders and descenders are cut at a 45 degree angle, open counters, curved strokes have a terminal at 45 from the baseline.Usage

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The dagger, or obelus or obelos (greek for Roasting split), or obelisk. A varient of the dagger is the double dagger ‡ , is also called a diesis or Cross of Lorraine.The dagger was first used in books for the Roman Catholic Church as a marker for a minor pause in a psalm, the major pauses was parked by an asterisk.More recently, the Dagger is used to indicate a footnote. a superscript number can

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Peter Biľak was Born in the Czech republic, went to school in England, the US and France, and ended up in the netherlands. He does work in type, editorial, graphic and web design. He also is a teacher at the Royal Academy in The Hague. Biľak started Typotheque in 1999.Fedra was commissioned by Paris-based Ruedi Baur Integral Design and developed as a corporate font for Bayerische Rück, a German

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Didot is named for a French Printing family. Firmin Didot, did much of the design and type casting. Pierre Didot did the printing. The Didotd were inspored by the experimental work of John Baskerville. There are many DIdot revivals. Hoefler & Frere-Jones and Adrian Frutiger each did a revival based on Firmins work. François Rappo designed a revival based on Pierre.Didotserif: thin

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aka interrogation point, question point, query, or eroteme.The question marks is used as a replacement for a period in a interrogative sentence. The symbol is generally thought to originate from the Latin quaestio, meaning "question," which was abbreviated to Qo. The uppercase Q was written above the lowercase o, and this mark was transformed into the current symbol.Spanish questions are start

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Lucida is an extended family of typefaces designed by the team of Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes in 1985. There are many variations in the Lucida family.Bigelow ans Holmes worked with a vendor to create a full set of mathematical symbols. These symbols help make Lucida one of the most complete type families. LucidaSerif, Sans serif... blackletter, caligraphy, handwriting, Fax, Bright, Sans

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The Asterisk is a star like typographic symbol. The name asterisk comes from the latin work for star, astrum. The Asterisk was created during the middle ages by printers of family trees. It was used to indicate a date of birth. the original shape of the asterisk was 6 teardrop shaped arms coming from the center. In some computer circles, the asterisk is called a splat, because of the shape it

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(ok so the punctuation series is really just a bunch of typographic symbols)The pilcrow is a common typographic symbol used to denote paragraphs.The pilcrow was used in the Middle Ages to mark a new train of thought, before the convention of physically discrete paragraphs was commonplace.¶The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the name originated as pylcraft, a corrupted form of "paragraph."

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Working in web design, I was introduced to the pixel font Unibody a few months ago as legal copy on a banner ad. My creative director recommended Underware's Unibody 8.Unibody 8 was designed to work with screen pixels to create a clear and readable small typeface on the screen. This font needs no anti-aliasing (blurring around the pixels to create a smooth look). The Unibody family has 5 members.

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Trajan's Column is a Roman monument in Honor of Emperor Trajan and constructed by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus. The column is well known for its spiral bas relief depicting Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars. It is located just north of the Roman Forum in Rome, Italy.The base of Trajans column featured Classic Roman Letterforms. it is believed that these letters were first painted on,

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The exclamation point was Introduced in the 1400s as the "mark of admirition". The mark is based on the latin work "lo" which means joy. Before it was featured on the typewritter, ! was formed by typing a "." followed by a backspace, then an apostrphe. it evolved into the perion and line we know and love today.

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One of Zuzanas favorite typefaces is Bodoni. she was attracted to its clean lines and geometric shapes. However, she felt that Bodoni at a small size was tough to read. Filosofia is Zuzanas interpretation of Bodoni's work. She incorporated features such as a bulging round serif. She also reduced the stroke contrast in the regular weight (to combate the "dazzling" found in digital versions of

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Giambattista Bondoni was a highly skilled Italian engraver, printer and typographer. His technical abilities helped him create the thin hairline serifs on the family of fonts named after him.Bodoni studied the types of John Baskerville, He paid particular attention to the contrast of Baskervilles letters. Baskervilles type was said to make one blind because of its high contrast of letters, Bodoni

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Xavier Dupré began sketching Vista while on vacation in Sumatra. He noticed many of the hand made signs with interesting decorative letters, slab serifs and triangular serifs. His plan was to create a semi serif typeface based on this characteristics.Dupré had difficulties early on and stopped the creation of this typeface. After 2 years he revisited his sketches and removed the Serifs,

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This exact history of the at sign is unknown. I like this one: its the evolution of the french "à" which was used in the marketplaces "crepes à 2 francs" The bottom right of the a connected with a elongated accent.The @ has many uses, most common being email. use it to replace the word "at" while writing in shorthand.@ is not traditional or standard typography.

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Neutraface is based on the architecture designed by Richard Neutra and his signage. Neutra's designs usualy showed a connections between man and nature, biorealism (as he called it). This was accomplished with elements such as reflective pools and large floor to ceiling glass windows. Neutraface reflects Neutra's attention to detail and his architecture. The letterforms are open and neutral.

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Eric Gill was a sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker from England. He is a controversial figure because of his religious views, "relationships" with his children and dog and his erotic art.His self titled typeface was based on Johnston Sans, the typeface used for the London Underground. which Gill worked on as Johnston's apprentice. Gill SansSerif: Humanist Sanscharacteristics

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aka: pound sign(us only), hash, checkmate, number sign, crosshatch, hex, tic-tac-toe, sharp (kinda but not really)The octothorpe was formed after printer had difficulty representing the lb and numbers. The pound sign/number sign needed an abbreviation when printing. first an lb with a line through it came, but the lowercase l and 1 looked similar, and printers fear that confusion. eventually a

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first post in a new area of study here, History of letters and typographic symbols.The ampersand, or &, is a symbol for the word AND in the English language. The Ampersand is actually a Ligature, a combination of 2 or more letterforms to form a single letter. the combination of the letters 'e' and 't'. 'et' in latin means and. The term ampersand, as Geoffrey Glaister writes in his "Glossary of

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number 4 in a series of 4 western faces, finallyZebrawood like its four brothers (see below) is a display western typeface. Its style can be traced back to the Toscanienne typefaces which appeared in advertisements and on signs at the end of the 19th century. Zebawoodserif: big split serifsused: display and headlinescharacteristics: split serifs. ZW is a bi-color font like Rosewood. the fill

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number 3 in a series of 4 western facesPepperwood, like Ponderosa, is based on wood types of the early 19th century. Called Italian, they became popular with their Square serifs that are wider then the stroke width of the characters. Pepperwoodserif: square and bigused: for headlines? and for wanted posters?characteristics: large square serifs, Small squares in middle of letters, and small spike

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number 2 in a series of 4 western facesPonderosa is based on wood types of the early 19th century. Called Italian, they became popular with their Square serifs. Ponderosaserif: large and square, larger than the stroke of the characterreminiscent of: wild west shootouts and 1970's platform shoes and hair-dos (according to linotype)chacteristics: Larger serifs. The extreme contrast of the

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number 1 in a series of 4 westerfacesKim Buker Chansler, Carl Crossgrove, Carol Twombly worked together to create a series of western typefaces. Rosewood is based on the traditional slab serif typeface Clarendon and was inspired by the display faces created during the industrial revolution, faces which were more ornate. Rosewoods has two ornamental "weights" , which make it stand out when used

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Starting in Advertising, then left to start his own studio, Herb Lubalin became a designer for a series of magazines, Eros, Fact and Avante Garde. It was after the collapse of Fact that Lubalin, with Publisher Ralph Ginzberg, started Avant GardeThe Typeface was based on the Magazines logo (see above)ITC Avante GardeSerif: geometric sans (designs were drawn with compass and t-square)usage:

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Linn Boyd Benton was an American inventor and typographer. He invented the pantographic engraving machine, which was capable not only of scaling a single font design pattern to a variety of sizes, but could also condense, extend, and slant the design. These variations were done mathematically, which is the basis of todays digital typographic systemsThe design of the century family began in 1890

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Nicolas Jenson is said to have designed the first Roman typeface. Jenson learned the art of moveable type in the mid 1400s in italy, some believe he studied type with Gutenberg.He type designs were based on the era's Typographic principals. He later developed a greek typeface and a Black letter face. Jenson started his own book trading companies. A 1482 advertisement about Jenson's books said:

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Novarese worked in the Nebiolo type foundry and produced a good amount of unique designs. One of which being Microgamma. Microgamma is a sans serif font with a futurisic feel. It only comes in Uppercase and in extended and bold extended styles.Microgamma was the basic of which eurostile was created.A decade after introducing microgamma, Novarese decided to bring back his popular sans serif, by

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Typeface designer, painter, author, and teacher, Paul Renner had talent in many areas. Renner wasn't associated with the Bauhaus, However he did share many beliefs with them. For example he believed that a modern typeface should express modern models, rather than be a revival of a previous design.Futura's initial design has many Geometrically constructed alternative letterforms and old style

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Inspired by Akzidenz Grotesk, Univers is an important typeface in Swiss typographic history. Univers was the first typeface to use Frutiger's number system.The number system gives a two digit number to each weight/style. the prefix (1st number) defines the weight, the Suffix (second) desifns the style.Universserif: Realist Sanscharacteristics: numbering system, large number of weights and styles.

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Times Roman was designed in 1931 for The Times. its goal was to solve problems that occurred with high speed printing on low quality newspaper. Times Roman is very influential in the development of other faces, such as Georgia. Times Roman is Often confused with the Microsoft Default Times NEW Roman, they are essentially the same except for some legal issues with trademarks. the differences

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Based on Garamonds self titles font, Sabon is a revival of of a revival (sabons other styles and weights were based on speciman sheets done by Konrad Berner. Berner had married the widow of a fellow printer Jacques Sabon, the source of the face's name. The italics are based on types designed by a friend of Garamond's Robert Grandjon.Sabonserif: old styleusage: books copy, bibles (first used in

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The French royalty used Garamond's Roman letters for their printing which would influence the type created across Europe.G’s letterforms convey a sense of fluidity and consistency. His typeface designs are loosely based on the French royal librarians handwriting.Garamondserif: old style, venetiancharacteristics: Some unique characteristics are the small bowl of the a and the small eye of the e.

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"DIN" stands for "Deutsche Industrie Norm," which in english means "German industry standard." These standards apply to multiple areas beyond type. FF DIN is based on DIN-Mittelschrift, a display face used on the traffic signs and public buildings in Germany. Albert-Jan Pool developed DIN with many weights, condensed, extendeds, and italics.FF DINserif:noneused: for anything german, many Ads and

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Jonathan Barnbrook is a British Graphic Designer and Typographer. Born in 1966, Barnbrook trained at Central St Martin's and at the Royal College of Art. Barnbrook Released many fonts with the Emigre type foundry, and even more with his own Virus foundry. BastardClassified: Geometric BlackletterWeights: Spindly Bastard, Fat Bastard, and Even Fatter Bastardcharacteristics: looks almost hand done

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Akzidenz Grotesk was created in the late 1800s by the H. Berthold type foundry. modern Akzidenz was based on the 19th century version, with a large increase of weights and styles. Helvetica was based on Akzidenz, Miedinger removed everything he felt was imperfect about Akzidenz. Adrian Frutigers Univers is also based on Akzidenz.Versions have been released in the US under the name "standard

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Designed by Miedinger in 1957 as a swiss Sans serif competitor to Azkindenz Grotesque. named for the Confœderatio Helvetica, (swiss confederation in latin), Helvetica, is one of the most widely used typefaces worldwide. The goal was to make the typeface neutral. to allow the context of the type shine over the typeface. Helvetica celebrates its 50th birthday in 2007, to celebrate, a film is

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John Baskerville was an english printer in the 1700s. He worked with a punch cutter to create many of his designs. BaskervilleSerif: Transitionalusage: books, body copycharacteristics: High contrast, shark serifs, verticle axis, Being a perfectionist, Baskervilles typeface is so "perfect" in its contrasting strokes that it was said to make you go blind.Based on the English typeface Caslon,

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H&FJ have to be my favorite type foundry. overall their work is very readable yet still unique. They are a pair or Armchair Type HistoriansGothamSerif:noneUsage: anything New York, anything coolcharcteristics: Geometric, open, many weightsA very interesting type design process. They planned to photograph every sign in Manhattan to use as a basis for their typeface. [from typography.com] "Every

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How could an online typography blog start with anything but Matthew Carter and his screen fonts. The son of a printing historian, Matthew Carter, began his type carrier as a freelance designer and typographic adviser to Crosfield Electronics. He formed Bitstream with a friend in 1981. Bitstream is a developer of digital fonts. He left Bitstream in 1991 to start Carter & Cone Type Foundry.

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The design of a typeface starts with the Romn style. The designer progresses then to bold and an oblique version. this blog will act as a way for me to continue my research in typography. Which began my senior year at the univerity of Delaware. which sparked the creation of Roman, and the process of Bold and oblique.

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